B00698:181
A fountain sealed: or, The duty of the sealed to the Spirit, and the…
A fountain sealed: or, The duty of the sealed to the Spirit, and the work of the Spirit in sealing. Wherein many things are handled about the Holy Spirit, and grieving of it: as also of assurance and sealing what it is, the privileges and degrees of it, with the signs to discern, and means to preserve it. : Being the substance of divers sermons preached at Gray's Inn. / By that Reverend Divine, Richard Sibbes D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honourable society.A fountain sealed: or, The duty of the sealed to the Spirit, and the worke of the Spirit in sealing. Wherein many things are handled about the Holy Spirit, and grieving of it: as also of assurance and sealing what it is, the priviledges and degrees of it, with the signes to discerne, and means to preserve it. : Being the substance of divers sermons preached at Grayes Inne. / By that Reverend Divine, Richard Sibbes D.D. and sometimes preacher to that honourable society.
London: printed by Thomas Harper for Lawrence Chapman, 1638
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
People out of self-love will have conceits of the Fathers and Sons love severed from the work of the Spirit upon their hearts which will prove a dangerous ⟨p. 190⟩illusion. Although the whole work of grace by the Spirit arise from the Fathers and Sons love, witnessed by the Spirit, yet the proof of the Fathers love to us in particular, ariseth from some knowledge of the work of the Spirit: the error is not in thinking of the Fathers and Sons love, but in a strengthening themselves by a pleasing powerless thought of it against the work of grace by the Spirit, which their corruption withstands. So they will carve out of the work of the Trinity what they think agreeable to their lusts, whereas otherwise if their heart were upright, they would for this very end think of Gods love, and ⟨p. 191⟩Christs, to quicken them to duty, and to arm them against corruption.
People out of selfe-love will have conceits of the Fathers and Sonnes love severed from the worke of the Spirit upon their hearts which will prove a dangerous ⟨p. 190⟩illusion. Although the whole work of grace by the Spirit arise from the Fathers and Sonnes love, witnessed by the Spirit, yet the proofe of the Fathers love to us in particular, ariseth from some knowledge of the worke of the Spirit: the errour is not in thinking of the Fathers and Sonnes love, but in a strengthening themselves by a pleasing powerlesse thought of it against the worke of grace by the Spirit, which their corruption withstands. So they will carve out of the worke of the Trinitie what they thinke agreeable to their lusts, whereas otherwise if their heart were upright, they would for this very end think of Gods love, and ⟨p. 191⟩Christs, to quicken them to duty, and to arme them against corruption.